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From GkiniXLAXD's Icy Mouxtaixs 



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BISHOP HEBER 



Oaitf) ]:ilustrations 

FROM DESIGNS BY 

THOMAS GUILFOVE AND EDMlNn II. (lAKRKTT 



liOSTOX 
LEE AM) SHKPARI). I'LIiLlSlIERS 

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CHARLES T. l)II.I.I\(;il AM 

1885 



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"From Grhexlaxivs Icy Mountaixs" 

is the one universal Missionary Hymn sung the whole world over, in every 
language whose accents have voiced the religion of jESfs, and in every 
clinic where there are Christian hearts to respond to the marching orders 
of the Master. No missionary assemblage has ever quite come up to the 
full measure of the gospel spirit without the climax of the grand old Mis- 
sionary Ilynu). 

REGINALD IIEBER 

was born April 21, 17S3, at Malpas, in Cheshire, Eng., and entered I^rase- 
nose College, Oxford, at the age of seventeen. His pen was ever a facile 
one ; and during his college-course he distinguished himself greatly, in his 
second year obtaining a university prize for a copy of Latin hexameters, 
and again, in the following year, by his English prize poem, " Palestine. " 
After his return, in 1S09, from an extended Continental tour, he was pre- 
sented to the family living of Ilodnet, where he thoroughly devoted hinjself 
to the duties of a parochial priest. Soon after his settlement at Hodnct, 
he married the daughter of the Rev. W. .Shipley, dean of Asaphs. 

Having been elected bishop of Calcutta, he sailed June 16, 1S23, for the 
East Indies. He enjoyed this honor less than three years. On the 2d o{ 
April, 1826, at Trichinopoli, whither he had gone in the discharge of his 
episcopal duties, he was seized, while bathing, with an ai>oplectic-fit, which 



terminated in his decease. He is best and widest known by liis Missionary 
Hymn. It was while he was enjoying the living at Ilodnet, when he was 
but thirty-five years of age, that he immortalized himself. 

Being on a visit to his father-in-law, Dr. Shipley, one Saturday afternoon 
in iSiS, while in conversation with several friends, the dean suddenly turned, 
and asked Ikhcr if he wdmUI write a missionary hymn for his church to sing 
the nc.\t morning, as he intended to jircach a discourse upon missions. 
Heber at once withdrew to a table in one corner of the room, and, while the 
friends were engaged in animated conversation, wrote the first three stanzas 
of the now immortal hymn. Rising from his corner, he read these verses to 
the company. "That will do," said the dean. Heber, however, thought it 
incomplete, and at once added the sublime fourth stanza. Little did those 
gentlemen in that rectory-parlor know that amid the buzz of their conversa- 
tion was born a mighty power for the spread of the gospel the wide world 
over. 

The hymn was printed that evening, and was sung the next morning in 
the church at Wrexham ; and since that blessed Sabbath its notes have been 
wafted in one unbroken wave around the world. 



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From Crecnland's icy mountains. 

From India's coral strand, 
Where Afric's sunny fountains 

Roll down their golden sand, 
From many an ancient river, 

From many a palmy plain, 
They call us to deliver 

Their land from error's chain. 

What thouijh the spicy breezes 

lilow soft o'er Ceylon's isle ; 
Thouj^h every prospect pleases. 

And only man is vile : 
In vain with lavish kindness 

The ^ifts of (iod are strown ; 
The heathen in his blindness 

Bows down to wood and stone. 



Can we, whose souls are lijjhted 

With wisdom from on high, 
Can we to man benighted 

The lamp of life deny? 
Salvation I O salvation ! 

The joyful .sound proclaim, 
Till earth's remotest nation 

Has learned Messiah's name. 

Waft, waft, ye winds, his story. 

And you. ye waters, roll, 
Till like a sea of glory 

It spreads from pole to pole ; 
Till o'er our ran.somed nature 

The Lamb for sinners slain. 
Redeemer, King, Creator, 

In bliss returns to reign. 




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